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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Avanguardie Educative (Indire): Jazz e inclusive?
Full text linkThis work starts from the desire to propose an inclusive theoretical-critical reflection on the innovative-didactic models proposed by Indire in the “Gallery of Ideas” which collects the proposals of the National Educational Avant-gardes (EA). The main objectives are two: (1) to propose a reading of the founding principles of the EA Manifesto under the light of an original and recent framework of pedagogical meaning - the pedagojazz (Santi, 2016); coherences and possible shades of dissonance will be found. (2) To propose a reading of the EA models in the light of the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) which at the international level proves to be an inclusive teaching proposal (CAST, 2011; Rose & Meyer, 2002), in line with the UN Convention (2006) on the rights of persons with disabilities. Questions that prompted this reflection, therefore, turn out to be: how “jazz” are the principles of the EA Manifesto? And how accessible and inclusive are - right from their design - the EA's proposals? And finally, is it possible to look inside the need for "innovation" in education (which is the engine of reflection and research on the avant-gardes), to rediscover and reposition the value of the unrepeatable, both human and educational, which is at the center of the inclusive perspective?Il presente lavoro muove dal desiderio di proporre una riflessione teorico-critica di stampo inclusivo sui modelli innovativi educativo-didattici proposti da Indire nella “Galleria delle Idee” che raccoglie le proposte di Avanguardie Educative (AE) nazionali. Gli obiettivi sono quelli di (1) proporre una lettura dei principi fondanti del Manifesto delle AE alla luce di una cornice di senso pedagogico originale e recente - la pedagojazz (Santi, 2016) - trovando le coerenze e valorizzando le possibili sfumature di dissonanza; (2) proporre una lettura dei modelli educativo-didattici proposti nelle AE, alla luce dei principi dello Universal Design for Learning (UDL) che a livello internazionale si dimostra una proposta di progettazione didattica inclusiva (CAST, 2011; Rose & Meyer, 2002), in linea con la Convenzione ONU (2006) sui diritti delle persone con disabilità. Le domande che hanno mosso questa riflessione risultano quindi essere: quanto “jazz” sono i principi del Manifesto delle AE? E quanto accessibili e inclusive sono - fin dalla loro progettazione - le proposte delle AE? E infine, è possibile guardare dentro al bisogno di “innovazione” in educazione (che è motore della riflessione e della ricerca sulle Avanguardie), per riscoprire e riposizionare il valore dell’irripetibilità, umana ed educativa, che è al centro della prospettiva inclusiva? 
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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